How To Actively Look After Your Health

February 18, 2018

Your health should be your top priority. It’s the only thing that you can have full control over, and it makes a huge impact on the kind of life that you are able to live. Surely you only want the best. That’s what you deserve, so it’s time to look after yourself better so you can do things with ease because you’re fit, healthy, and able.

With the world getting more advanced, especially in the technology department, it’s very easy to become lazy. Things can be done for you, without you even having to lift a finger, so ‘why bother?’ This is starting to be a popular attitude in our younger generation, and while there is some truth there, it doesn’t mean we should just sit back and rely on things to be done for us. You need to be fit and active – not so you’re more attractive physically, but so your body can live long without issues, as well as your mind. Here’s how.

Go to your checkups

Make sure you attend your doctor’s appointments as well as your dentist ones. Even if you feel absolutely fine, you still need to go so that they can give you the routine checkup. While you may feel like there’s no problem, they may find something abnormal, that can then lead to multiple different things, and you may have allowed things to get worse by not attending your appointment, so just go. It’s better safe than sorry, right?

Learn about your illness

If you, unfortunately, have an illness that you’re living with, it’s important to do as much as you can to understand it. It’s one thing to just listen to an expert tell you what to do, but the more you know about the condition, the better chance you have at looking after yourself properly because you’ll know what your body can handle, what it needs, and what to avoid. If you have a type of cancer, for example, get as much information about it as you can so you know exactly what is happening, and then you can avoid putting out a cancer misdiagnosis claim because someone has given you the wrong information.

Exercise your body and mind

The best thing about exercise is that you can do it wherever you want, whenever you want, with whoever you want, and as much as you want. People have this idea that working out means going to the gym and leading a super strict lifestyle, and while individuals may choose to do that – you don’t have to. You can follow a workout video on YouTube in the comfort of your own home for thirty minutes, and that’s more than enough time to burn some fat and release those magical endorphins. Then depending on how you feel, you can choose to build up the intensity from there, extending the time or adding in some weights for resistance.

Prep your lunch the night before

You may rely on eating out when you have lunch during the week, but not only is this expensive, but it may lead you to choose the naughtier options, which doesn’t do anything for your health. So whether you use the leftovers of last nights dinner, or you just prepare a lunch before you sit down and enjoy the rest of your evening – this is the better option as you can make sure you have all the nutrients you need for the busy day ahead of you.

Quick morning meditation

Meditation is an incredible way of balancing the mind before a long busy day; this is why it’s good to do it in the morning before you start getting ready. It’s also encouraged to do it before you go to sleep too, to banish any stressful thoughts or worries that you are carrying with you from earlier in the day. Think about all the things you are grateful to have in your life, and what positive things you have within that, as well as within yourself.

Unplug from the virtual world

Now, this doesn’t mean forever, as technology has done wonderful things for us. But sometimes it’s nice to withdraw and take yourself away from that for a while. It’s easy to fall into the habit of ending your night with staring at your phone screen, to beginning your morning the same way, and this consumes so much time you may not even realise until it’s too late. So make some time for yourself and tune into your own system, rather than the electronic one in your hand.